Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
We have freedom of speech, and anybody's idea can't be a fact.
I don't like political rappers.
Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.
In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy.
You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you wrap yourself in the banner of free speech in order to protest state punishment of views you like and share.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.
In order to exercise the right to freedom of speech conferred by the Constitution, one should fulfill the social responsibility of a Chinese citizen.
People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
I like to start every sentence with: 'So here's the deal.'
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Yisrael Beiteinu has no objection to the nonviolent expression of opinion. It is violent speech that forms a clear and present danger that we refuse to tolerate.
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
Mr. [Donald] Trump has every right to say that didn't happen.
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
